The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-08
Industrial and Manufacturing Notes.

Industrial and Misunderstanding Notes
Atkins & Co. are making corn knives by the
thousands. using the waste material from the
saws for the knives
Hetherington & Berner are Just CO mpleting
two fifty fve-foot iron turntables for the st.
Louis, Kansas City & Colorado road
Several miles of brick walk are now under
contract, but the contractors are unable to 90
anything owing to the scarcity or brlck-
The Indianapolis Rolling mill Company are
using i've carloads OF the best block coal daily
notwithstanding the fact that several OF their
furnaces are heated by gas
The United States Encaus.ic Tile Company
yesterday shipped three car loads OF thing 10
Austin. Tex, to be used in the floors OF the new
Statehouse Later in the month three more
carloads will be forwarded.
The Central Chair Company are rapidly get
ting their machinery in position and will ba able
to start MP in their new buildings IN couple or
weeks. Fire was pat under the boilers and the
engine started up on Tuesday.
The Moore Desk Company have got into the
new building with part OF their works, ana
this will enable them to largely increase their
producing capacity. There seems to be no fall
ing off in orders for their patterns OF desks
The American Paper Pulley Company this
week filed one order for 100 pulleys. large sizes,
to go to Pittsburg, to be used III a mandatory
going up there. They will also ship large
order to Lynn, Mass, to-day, for eiectric-llght-
works.
In few days Sinker. Davis & Co will shin an
engine and boiler seventy five horse-power1 to
San Francisco. Cal They are also now con,
structing four boilers for the Island City Coal
Company, making eight they have built for
these mines.
A day or two ago Atkins & Co. received from
Xenia Ind. a poplar board cut from log by
OF their circular saws elghty-elght inches IN
diameter The board was one lncn thick by
thirty-eight inches wide, the widest board ever
cut by a circular saw
C. II. Gillette & Co.. brentwood workers are
increasing their force almost daily and then are
unable to keep pace with their orders Yester-
day they received orders for two carloads to go
to Lowell. Mass, one to Chicago. two to St
Louis and one to Galveston, Tex.
The Eagle Machine works Company have de-
cided to at once erect their carpenter shop The
building will DE of brick, resting stone founda
tions, and $50 feet long by SO wide Most of
their machinery is removed from the old shops
to their buildings on Missouri street.
Anthony Wiegand has just completed extern
sive green houses on North Illinois street, and
now has the largest establishment of this kind
In Indiana. F. W. Chislett, superin tendent of
the Crown Hill Cemetery, has commenced the
erection of a business block the ground
where the establishment of Mr.. Wiegand former
ly stood.
Brewers report the first half of the year TO be
a highly prosperous one for them, their sales
beng 20 per cent. larger than in the first six
months of 1885. The brewers account for this
large increase from the fact that there is a grow
ing disposition TO drink the mllder toncs and
stimuiants. beer taking the place Of whisky and
high priced wines.
The Indianapolis horse market again shows
some signs of life. The distemper, which has
prevailed to SO large an extent among horses in
this State. has passed away. and Eastern buyers
coming into the field and buying quite ilber-
ally. In the early spring they lost heavily IN
the shipment of horses to Eastern markets. a
number dying from disease contracted In Indi-
ana; but they anticipate further trouble on